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The Movement for Black Lives Announces Juneteenth Weekend of Action

In observance of Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of African slaves in America, the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is organizing a weekend of action to demand divestment from police departments and investment in black

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Working the Quincy Mill: African American Lumber Mill Workers in Northern California, 1926-1955

Economic opportunity motivated millions of early 20th Century African Americans to leave the segregated South. Most of the people of the Great Migration found better jobs and better pay in northern factories in World War I and western defense industries in World War II. However, at least a few

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Source: Black Past

How Did Jackie Robinson Make History?

Who Was Jackie

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Wilson, Lionel (1915-1998)

Lionel Wilson, lawyer, judge, and politician, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 4, 1915 to Jules and Louise Wilson. In 1918 the family moved to Oakland, California, where his parents believed a smaller and less-noticeable black community would afford them greater freedoms and less

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Source: Black Past

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The Bernie Mac Show

The Bernie Mac Show (often shortened to Bernie Mac in syndication) is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001, to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sisters three kids: Jordan, Vanessa, and

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Ransome’s ‘Everyday People’ on display at Children’s Museum of Houston

HOUSTON – The Children’s Museum Houston has unveiled a brand-new art exhibit which celebrates people, places and defining moments in African American history, just in time for

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Berry, Halle (1968- )

Halle Berry, who was born Maria Halle Berry, is a multiracial model, actress, and former beauty queen who was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1968. Her mother Judith Hawkins Berry, who is white, worked as a psychiatric nurse in a Cleveland hospital. Berry’s African American father, Jerome Berry, was

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Source: Black Past

The forgotten story of how 13 Black men broke the Navy’s toughest color barrier

Officer positions in the U.S. Navy had previously been off limits to black men, and these 16 enlistees had been summoned from training schools and shore installations across the United States to break that color

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MLB and City of Houston Parks Department Agree to Continue MLB Youth Academy at Sylvester Turner Park

The Houston Parks and Recreation Department recently announced the Houston Parks and Recreation Department, Major League Baseball Youth Foundation and the Astros Foundation, are extending the operating agreement between the entities for the MLB Youth Academy at Sylvester Turner

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Ernie Davis

Ernest Davis commonly referred to as “Ernie” by friends and colleagues, was an American football halfback who passed away at the mere age of 23 due to complications from leukemia. Born in New Salem, Pennsylvania on December 14, 1939, Davis was a popular athlete in his school and college

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Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis , (born Nov. 20, 1866, Millville, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 25, 1944, Chicago, Ill.), American federal judge who, as the first commissioner of organized professional baseball, was noted for his uncompromising measures against persons guilty of dishonesty or other conduct he

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Willie Batson Succumbs | The Oklahoma Eagle

Willie worked as a City Planner in both Wichita, Kansas and in Oklahoma City before joining the Office of the Governor in

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Philadelphia Police Allow 100 White Men Armed With Bats And Shovels to Roam the Streets in Anticipation of Protesters

Approximately 100 white men armed with baseball bats, hammers, and shovels were roaming the streets of a Philadelphia neighborhood in the name of

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Taylor, Marshall W. (1878-1932)

He was a black pioneer in sports long before Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and even the legendary Jack Johnson. He did not play baseball as Robinson did, nor was he a pugilist as were Johnson and Louis, and although he participated in a sport where the main objective was speed, he was

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Magic Johnson

Name at birth: Earvin

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County moves to yellow phase, 12 more counties to yellow next Friday

On its first day of partial re-opening, the City of Pittsburgh announced which summer activities can go forward and which can’t — like July 4 festivities and

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New Juneteenth meaning for Black Texans, while push to make holiday goes national

The activist and educator will lead her community on foot for two and a half miles — a distance that represents the number of additional years it took before enslaved people in Texas were informed of their freedom after the signing of the Emancipation

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Black players in professional American football

Details of the history of black players in professional American football depend on the professional football league considered, which includes the National Football League (NFL); the American Football League (AFL), a rival league from 1960 through 1969 which eventually merged with the NFL; and the

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Honoring Jackie Robinson extends into orbit this year

Jackie Robinson Day was celebrated even in space this

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The Sword of The Black Press

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Source: The Florida Star

Community colleges could see influx of athletes as coronavirus disrupts sports recruiting | Black Voice News

Thanks to the coronavirus, he was right: In March, the California Community College Athletic Association announced it was cancelling all spring sports, mirroring a similar decision by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which oversees university

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

This Day in Black History: June 14, 1998

With just 5.2 seconds left on the clock Michael Jordan — who already had more than 40 points — scored the winning jumpshot to lead the Chicago Bulls to an 87-86 win over the Utah Jazz in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on June

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Former NFL Receiver Reche Caldwell Killed Outside of His Home In Apparent Robbery Attempt

Donald “Reche” Caldwell, a former NFL player who played for the San Diego Chargers, New England Patriots and Washington Redskins, was shot and killed in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, June 6, at age

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Pedro Sierra Recounts Glory Days in Negro Baseball League

Before a worldwide pandemic shutdown sports, Major League Baseball had planned to use Tuesday, June 29, as a celebration and tip of the cap to the Negro Leagues which began 100 years

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A long-overdue ‘Tip of the Cap’ to baseball’s Black pioneers

So did three other former U.S. presidents and a host of prominent civil rights leaders, entertainers and sports greats in a virtual salute to the 100-year anniversary of the founding of baseball’s Negro

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Black Lives Matter goes mainstream after Floyd's death

For much of its seven-year existence, the Black Lives Matter movement has been seen by many Americans as a divisive, even radical

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ALS Awareness Month – #ALSAwareness (Week 2)

I noted in last week’s article that awareness days, weeks and months are helpful as they heighten awareness around a specific cause, start conversations and have spurred charity events and information

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Black America speaks. America should listen.

30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in

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Multiple Governors Announce Openness To Live Sports Without Fans

As states around the country continue to relax social distancing guidelines involving in-person meetings, a chorus of governors have announced their openness to live sports events in the immediate future, with some offering their states as test sites for teams and leagues looking to restart

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Ozzie Smith

Osborne Earl Smith, better known as Ozzie Smith, is a retired professional baseball player who played for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals. He was born on December 26, 1954 in Mobile, Alabama and was one of six children born to Clovi and Marvella Smith. Smith quotes his mother as being

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